On a distant alien planet, a quartet of human women have been tasked with researching the environment and civilizing the natives. But as is typical of these types of endeavors in science fiction, things go horribly wrong. Sophie Goldstein’s House Of Women is a striking, suspenseful new graphic novel from…

Serial killer Ed Kemper is one of the great hooks of David Fincher’s excellent Mindhunter, a hulking but folksy monster played by Cameron Britton. A series of long dialogs with him kickstart the show, providing momentum as the protagonists try to create a taxonomy for understanding some of the most grisly murderers in…

Today Donald Trump is fighting (spins enormous wheel) Republican Senator Bob Corker, hopping on the internet this morning to personally insult him over the course of several tweets just before the two meet today. The lunch-time sit-down with Republican senators will probably rustle up some more fodder for the…

As reported by The Daily Beast, ESPN has decided to cancel new series Barstool Van Talk after only one episode. Though the network didn’t specifically say so, the decision most likely came in response to a few Twitter posts from ESPN host Sam Ponder, who pointed out the misogynistic nature of some of the content on…

While her Golden Globe-nominated dramedy is on hiatus after its second season, Insecure star and co-creator Issa Rae is working on a new project with HBO. Deadline reports that Rae will executive produce an as-yet-untitled drama set in ’90s Los Angeles. That decade’s “turbulent times” will be the backdrop for the…

Woody Allen no longer casts himself as the romantic lead in his films, but it’s still pretty obvious when the director’s own viewpoints, neuroses, and inclinations are coming out of his male leads’ mouths. All of which is to say that a new Woody Allen movie, tentatively titled A Rainy Day In New York, is currently…

Though post-credits scenes are increasingly associated with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they’ve always been fair game for any genre. Matthew Broderick shooed away lingering audiences after the credits wrapped on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, while The Grey ended with round two of that “Liam Neeson versus a wolf” fight.…

The nature of God has vexed theologians and philosophers for millennia. “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him,” the Bible tells us. “Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not,” Saint Thomas Aquinas once wrote. And so it is that we can…

Did you know that Owen Wilson says “wow” a lot? Probably, considering not only did some genius make a supercut of it, but some other wiseasses worked that “wow” into things such as lightsaber duels. Now, Wilson’s slacker-chic rasp has leaped, inevitably some would say, from the corporeal world into the musical one,…

Mark Wahlberg, who somehow regularly has the ear of various Catholic officials, from cardinals to the pope, has once again implored a holy audience to forgive him the sins of his misspent youth, including making Boogie Nights and the day he spent attacking Asian men. The Chicago Tribune reports that, while in town…

Let’s quickly recap the saga of Kevin Can Wait’s first wife, played by Erinn Hayes, who was senselessly killed off in between seasons so she could be replaced with Kevin James’ old King Of Queens costar Leah Remini. It’s difficult to call the public response as outrage, more a sort of delighted puzzlement at the…

Brit Marling, star and creator of The OA, has stepped forward with the depressingly familiar story of being sexually harassed by Harvey Weinstein. In a personal essay in The Atlantic, Marling looks at just how widespread the imbalance of power is between influential, primarily male executives—be they in the movie…

Reliably prolific indie rockers They Might Be Giants have just announced the release of their 20th studio album, I Like Fun, with a new single “I I Left My Body.” The power-pop track is full of both yearning and quirk, as John Linnell sings about having his body towed after leaving it lying around somewhere.

In an interview with The Financial Times(via The Hollywood Reporter), a woman who used to work as Harvey Weinstein’s assistant at Miramax’s London office several years ago has broken a non-disclosure agreement she signed so she could discuss a supposed history of cover-ups that have prevented Weinstein staffers from…

In a crushing blow to the future summer plans of people who like to stay inside and watch bad TV or read entertaining recaps of bad TV, CBS has decided to cancel beloved drama series Zoo after three seasons. The show came from author/executive producer James Patterson, and it all revolved around a series of violent…